Section 99B: Application to High Court to set aside order of forfeiture

[(1)] Any person having any interest in any newspaper, book or other document, in respect of which an order of forfeiture has been made under section 99A, [or any other law for the time being in force] may, within two months from the date of such order, apply to the High Court to set aside such order on the ground that the issue of the newspaper, or the book or other document, in respect of which the order was made, did not contain any [treasonable or] [seditious or other matter of such a nature as is referred to in sub section (1) of section 99A]. [(2) Nothing in sub section (1) shall apply to a case where the order of forfeiture has been made (a) in respect of a newspaper, book or other document printed outside Pakistan ; or (b) in respect of a newspaper, book or other document on the conviction, in respect of such newspaper, book or other document, of the author or editor thereof for any of the offences referred to in sub section (1) of section 99A.]

Effective date: 1898-07-01

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